TUGBOAT Volume 25, Number 2 / 2004 General Delivery 123 From the president / Karl Berry 124 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton New TUGboat submission and posting policies; Justin Howes, 1963–2005; John Seybold, 1916–2004; Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-pu-ter; Error in TUGboat 24:2 Zapfino article; Historic LATEX distributions; The LATEX Companion, 2nd edition; techexplorer available once again; Central European diacritics: TYPO Magazine; Extra time? Proofread for Project Gutenberg Tutorials 126 CTAN for starters / Jim Hefferon 128 \starttext: Practical ConTEXt / Steve Peter 131 Virtual fonts — a tutorial / Thomas Schmitz Typography 134 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Philology 136 Philological facilities for the Coptic script / Claudio Beccari and Cristiano Pulone 141 RyDArab — Typesetting Arabic mathematical expressions / Azzeddine Lazrek Software & Tools 150 PerlTEX: Defining LATEX macros using Perl / Scott Pakin 159 TEX and prepress / Siep Kroonenberg 166 Automatic typesetting of formulas using computer algebra / Marcelo Castier and Vladimir F. Cabral Graphics 172 ePiX: A utility for creating mathematically accurate figures / Andrew D. Hwang 177 LATEX in 3D: OpenDX annotations / Jerry Hagon A L TEX 188 dramatist: Another package for typesetting drama with LATEX / Massimiliano Dominici 193 Variable width boxes in LATEX / Simon Law Macros 194 xkeyval — new developments and mechanisms in key processing / Hendri Adriaens and Uwe Kern 199 A non-expert looks at a small TEX macro / David Walden Hints & Tricks 201 Glisterings: Package/package and class/package clashes / Peter Wilson 203 The treasure chest / Mark LaPlante Abstracts 209 Zpravodaj : Contents of issues 13(1), 14(1), 14(2) (2003–04) 210 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 1–4/2003 213 Biuletyn GUST : Contents of issues 20–21 (2004) 215 Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 43 (2003) 216 MAPS: Contents of issues 29–31 (2003–04) News & 221 Calendar Announcements 223 A brief report on the first GuIT meeting / Onofrio de Bari and Maurizio Himmelmann 223 TUG 2005 announcement TUG Business 224 TEX Development Fund 2003–05 report / Karl Berry and Kaja Christiansen 226 Financial statements for 2004 / Robin Laakso 228 TUG 2005 election report / Barbara Beeton 232 Institutional members Advertisements 232 TEX consulting and production services TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. 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